greased lightning, like

greased lightning, like
 Very quickly indeed

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  • greased lightning — noun Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning). We find there quite seriously the monstrous hyperboles of swallowing a camel, of having a wooden beam in the eye, of a camels going through the …   Wiktionary

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  • Greased lightning —   If something or someone moves like greased lightning, they move very fast indeed …   Dictionary of English idioms

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